New (to me, anyway) Gervais, Merchant, Pilkington podcast!

A new full-length podcast featuring Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and
Karl Pilkington has been made vailable. Originally, only audience
members of Gervais’ London shows of his stand-up show Fame were able to get the free podcast, but it was uploaded on our forum completely legally. The podcast features Karl giving his highlight of the year, a film idea, and a taster of his new book Happy Slapped By A Jellyfish.   via Pilkipedia.

Paul McCarthy

The pig I mentioned seeing in my previous post was by the artist Paul McCarthy. This description of his previous work in Wikipedia made me laugh/wince:

An example of this is his 1976 piece Class Fool, where McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup spattered UCSD classroom until dazed and injured. He then vomited several times and inserted a Barbie doll into his rectum.^[1] The piece ended when the audience could no longer stand to watch his performance.

True? I have no idea. ubu.com has some videos of his performance art here. Maybe you can find out for me? Wow, I’ve never seen ubu.com before. They have a ton of resources to browse. I’m on it right now watching a BBC documentary about J.G. Ballard.

MCA

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rock, originally uploaded by andrewc.

I had some time to go to the MCA today and poke around. The rock exhibit was ok but I really liked the pig. It scared me.

Oct. 27 Anti-war Rally

Calling all commies, rabble-rousers and peaceniks! March against the war! This Saturday thousands of people from hundreds of local and regional organizations will meet at Union Park at 1:30 pm local time. From Union Park the mass will march through downtown Chicago and finally rally at Federal Plaza at 4:00 pm local time. Everyone is invited. Even the 2 people in 5 years that I’ve met who are pro-war, they are going, but I think just to meet girls.

This event in Chicago is one of 12 in the U.S. billed as “National Mobilization to End the Iraq War.”

More info at: Oct27Chicago.org

Tiger Tree

MANGALORE, INDIA: Carnivorous trees grabbing humans and cattle and gobbling them up is not just village folklore.

Residents of Padrame near Kokkoda in Uppinangady forest range sighted one such carnivorous tree trying to dine on a cow last Thursday. Uppinangady range forest officer (RFO) Subramanya Rao said the tree was described as ‘pili mara’ (tiger tree) in native lingo.

I am trying to find an exporter to send me 20 sapplings. I’ll raise them on steaks and then unleash them on you.

Right next to Thai-Tanic Noodles

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Market, originally uploaded by andrewc.

I have no idea how this ended up on my camera…

franks from andrew on Vimeo.

Um. What? He was cold. He put that outfit on himself. Also he had a great time at the renfair.

Panther Style Engagement

My friend Dan, drummer in the Chicago band, Panther Style, got engaged to his bandmate, Melissa, recently. Instead of a diamond ring, he got Melissa, the guitarist in the band, something way more useful:

Maybe Melissa will get Dan an engagement iPhone?

First?

   
   
   
    DUMBLEDORE’S ARMY by    nerdpita
   
Get this custom shirt
at Zazzle

In response to this I threw that up in a hurry. I love that Dumbledore’s gay. It makes so much sense and adds a complexity to the books with something I had not thought of for some reason.

It’s raining men

Click photo for bigger, more loin-clothy version.

Lunar New Year observances at Saidaiji Temple in Okayama, Japan,
traditionally include this feat of human performance.  For a ceremony known as hadaka matsuri,  a roomful of men grapple in total darkness to find camphor-scented batons
tossed into the fray by the temple priest. via Lia, via this Ask Metafilter question.